Week three
Understand your target customer and the size of your market. Start to build out your brand.

Week four
Learn the fundamentals of financial planning for your startup. Understand the different grants and funding programs out there for your startup.

Week five
Delve into the legal foundations you will need to know to start your company

What you’ll learn

• Develop your startup idea, product vision and value proposition

• Create the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to validate your product or service

• Learn and work with proven methods for startup formation

• Develop the financial model for your product

• Work efficiently on testing and validating your product with future customers

You’ll make real progress in 5 weeks.
Our course is practical, unlike other programs we focus on tactics that (if done right) will accelerate the growth of your company. We carefully curated a mix of perspectives – you’re not learning business, you’re learning to build a startup with proven methods.

We’re here to support you.
Weekly live sessions and access to our online Slack community of entrepreneurs from around the world, learning to create companies together. While you can learn at your own pace, we’ll be here at MaRS to guide you each week.

The world around us is changing fast.
This isn’t your average course on entrepreneurship. We connected experts with deep experience from many fields – across sectors and specializations. We’ll help you see the patterns and opportunities where others see chaos.

Let’s advance the world together.
MaRS has accelerated the growth of thousands of young companies since we got started in 2005 whose technologies and solutions meaningfully improve lives everyday. Potential unlimited.